Steve1357

First and last time yesterday I will get ambushed to sign up for a credit card at the Little Rock Basspro... I thought it was just "somewhere else" and not my store. But it's a weird felling. Kinda like getting ambushed by little kids guarding the front door when you're running into Walmart....

Agreed Many different nicknames.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmouth Darn things keep taking the tails off any curly tail worms around here...Swing and a miss!

I always go back to the 10.5" Yum Mighty Worm. Heavy, easy to throw and about the only one bream will leave alone. I can't fish curly tail worms, waste of time really.... I do like Baby Hueys, but hard to find these days. Segmented worm, old school. Berkley 12" are good, used them during spawn, not many bream around lol

Academy here has their $80 purple AllStar rods (several sizes) half price for $40. Got me a couple of 7' 6" monsters lol...

Thank you sir! All these years, I've always just measured the length and bragged on the guesstimate....

anybody got a link to that clamp? Thanks!

Based upon my experience fishing with friends in their boats.....get your foot off the trolling motor! Plastic worms may be the slowest, most boring lure there is. Short story:Nephew was with me fishing from shore one day, He was using a 6" lizard weightless. He cast out and laid his pole down and walked away for a minute. I hear something, turned and looked, his rod and reel is being dragged into the water... To finish what I started, it's hard to fish with friends in their boats emulating FLW contestants. Trolling motor always engaged, crankbaits cranking, you can forget trying a worm. I've caught bass just letting the worm drift behind the boat... In my boat this time of year, I'll find a cove with trees, sit in the shade and fish a worm for 10 minutes or more before hitting the trolling motor and moving up the shore a little bit into another shade. Weightless rigged plastic worms may be one of the best bank fishing lures there is. But it's all good....

I tried this stuff wanting to help the fishes... Turned to hard gunk within a year, couldn't cast, hard to crank.

Academy has two types of "Classic Edition" rods. One line is 14.99 and other line is 16.99. Both lines include several lengths, casting and spinning. Here the 16.99 ones ring up 4.98. Casting and spinning. What you're looking for in the part number on the rod itself will have a "TCC". These were 4.98. The 14.99 Classic Edition rods do not have "TCC" on the rod and were not on sale. ymmv

Am I overlooking collars at that website? Thanks! Edit: Doh! found them.....

Good to hear for you about Ganders. Old Ganders here is now a discount furniture store, they never came back. The new owners probably noticed the Academy across the freeway that killed the original Ganders.

BPS brands, agreed. Plugs are what 2.99? Looks like junk I use to get on ebay for less than a buck each. I did get some jigs this week. Use to be their markdowns were red price tags, now they are the same color as regular price tags, just have to look at every one. I try to stop in once a week and say high to friends that work there and scan the shelves. Takes money to fund that "atmosphere" ask the casinos... imho, Academy getting worse too, and Gander is gone. (yeah, I know it's back, big whoop lol) Good luck volzfan59, I bet it's for the best.

Agreed. I got a few cheap Academy rods that I use in the summer throwing itty bitty stuff....all hell breaks loose when you get a hawg lol

I didnt see it mentioned, apologies if so.... How much line are you using with the lure to cast? I use more line out with lighter lures, helps wind them up and sling them out there better. (my humble experience)

Stopped by local Academy today. Clearance prices don't seem to change like they use to. Some lures were marked clearance for $2.48, been watching them for a few weeks. Just for grins, grabbed one, walked over to the price scanner, came up 98c. Same thing on a rod, was 79, marked 59, scanner said $44. (didnt get it) You never know, worth a shot if you see something you want, can't trust sticker on shelf...

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I use to change hooks. Sometimes ended up getting the wrong ones, little too long shank and the front and back hooks would "hook" each other during cast. Go back and get the right hooks, ended up wasting money that could have been spent on more lures! fwiw

So items from sellers in China on ebay just got "cheaper" ?

My 2c first thought, grab some of those $20 combos and have fun rest of this year until it's comfortable, second nature. My thought being just starting out, dropping a $125 rig watching it sink would kill me. Almost has in the past from a boat....

How much is the line worth? Time is finite.... Jack up your car, tape line to tire, spin it by hand wrapping it on tire. 17" tire is 53.4" of line each revolution. You only need 337 turns of the tire......Smile Garden hose crank up thingy?

my experience... The brakes seem to affect the beginning of the cast and the spool tension cap affects the end of the cast. When I first started, using a pistol grip rod, I would backhand it until I built some confidence. Also someone once said, NEVER take your thumb off the spool...... Do you have most of your thumb pressure on the button while you're adding a little thumb pressure to the spool? I use an old Abu 5000 round reel, it give you a cross bar to push as hard as you want to with your thumb while giving the spool only a light touch. I can roll my thumb forward a hair onto the spool changing the pressure without moving my thumb. Hell, maybe that doesnt make any since.... Like has been mentioned, start with like 14lb BigGame and some 3/8 or 1/2 spinnerbaits downwind! If it hasn't been mentioned, roll off how far you think you'll cast it practicing and put some tape around the spool. That way you don't blowup the whole load when it does go nuts, just lose line down to the tape.

Exactly, baitcasting 101.....thumb on hookset....needs to be instinctive. Then the fluorocarbon guys will be telling me you can't do that because the line will break...that's why I don't use fluorocarbon. ?

Thats why I love my 1981 and earlier Abu round reels. Had the clicker built into the main gear. Gets people's attention lol

How about 4lb mono on a Abu 4500CB trout fishing with spoons? Maybe it's my technique. I see a lot of TV pros and others using seven foot rods, whipping that lure out there with two hands, wearing thumb condoms so they don't burn it up. I learned to sling a lure backhanded until I got to where I could sling it overhanded. Use a 5' 6" pistol grip rod, pretty limber, all of it comes together in a nice cast, nothing violent about it. Then again, 200 yard seven irons don't impress me either..... It's all good though...

Why do you think it is the better and right tool? I'm willing to learn....